Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.